Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 14, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 22 March 1916 — Page 5

DRECK IS RIGHT A fellow came in today and said, “Give me a pair of TOP NOTCH Boots there is going to be some “dreck . Dreck means mud. How are you fixed for dreck? DONI EXPERIMENT, PLAY SAFE, TOP NOTCH BOOTS ARE BETTER. Charlie Voglewede AT THE SIGN OF THE BIG SHOE

I WEATHER FORECAST I 1. TnKtnttnamojmttnnttTUttKiunmnw Partly cloudy; much colder tonight with a cold wave; Thursday fair. Fred Jaebker was a Fort Wayne visitor yesterday. Mrs. E. X. Ehinger went to Fort Wayne this morning. Peter Braun went to Auburn this morning on business. T. M. Gallogly was a Fort Wayne business visitor today. Mrs. Hazel Eddington returned yesterday afternoon from a visit in Ge-'■ n'eva. Noah Mangold returned yesterday afternoon at 3:22 from Geneva where he attended to business. Mrs. Nancy Lord was a visitor here yesterday. She called on Mr. and Mrs. William Blackburn. Mrs. V. 3. Cress has returned from Sturgis. Mich., where she Visited with her sister, Mrs. Peckham, who is ill. Mrs. Glen Glancy of Monroe attended the funeral of her grandmother, Mrs. Rachel Kern, yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Miller of near Linn Grove went to Fort Wayne this morning, where they spent the day visiting with friends and relatives. — Bluffton News. Mr. and Mrs. Ermon Mentzer returned to their home in Payne, Ohio this morning after spending a few days in Bluffton visiting with friends. —Bluffton News. The funeral of Mrs. Rachel Kern was held yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the Methodist church in charge of the Rev. D. T. Stephenson. A large number of friends attended.

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George Wemhoff left this morning for Fort Wayne on business. Father Benzinger of Hesse Cassel was here yesterday on business. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heller went to Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Mrs. George Simmers went to Mmmouth this mornftg to visit with relatives E. J. Glendenning and J. Smitley left today for Fort Wayne to attend to business. Mrs. Jeff Bryson arrived yesterday afternoon at 3;22 from Portland to visit here with relatives. Mrs. L. E. Woodward returned to her home in Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon after a visit here. Miss Bessie Gilbert returned yesterday afternoon on the 3:22 G. R. A I. train from Berne, where she visited. The assembly dance at the Masonic hall tonight promises to be well attended and the usual delightful event. Ferd Christen who has been very sick for several weeks is about the same today, but is improved over his condition of a week ago. Mrs. David Liby and daughter, Mrs. ; Homer Krick, of Fort Wayne went to Monmouth today noon to call on their I son and brother, Lase Swlgard, Who . is ill of the grip. ’ Meredith Stewart is a victim of the mumps, and of course is detained , from school. Meredith says he don’t mind mind ’em much himself, but he don’t want to iee little Max William >' get ’em. ' Mrs. F. H. Hubbard left yesterday .afternoon on the 3:22 G. R. & 1. train : for Charlevoix, Mich., to visit with : relatives. Word came here, prior to her leaving that the north was in the grip of a big snow storm, which was quite a contrast to the spring-like weather that ushered in spring here. J —„—

Mrs. J. 8. Bowers is the guest of' her daughter at Fort Wayne. Louis Wise was looking after bus!-; ness at Fort Wayne last evening. Henry Dlrkson of near St. John’s was a business visitor here today. Miss Grace Miller went to Berne this afternoon to conduct her music class. Attorney J. C. Sutton went to Portland this afternoon on the 1:05 train. Fred Jaebker returned last evening from Fort Wayne where he attended to business. O. F. Gilliom of Berne, Lincoln Life Insurance agent, was here on business this morning. W. A. Lower is slightly better today after a restless night. He has been ill with lagrippe for five weeks. Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Baker and son. Raymond, left this afternoon on the 1:05 G. R. & 1. train for Berne to attend to business matters. The high school are this week publishing the fourth number of their school paper. Its a dandy good paper, well edited and well managed. Frank Tolan of the American Type Founders Company of Chicago was here today looking after business. He has recovered from a severe illness. Graduates of the class of 1916, Decatur public schools will each receive a parchment diploma enclosed in a handsome leather case. The order was given today. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Rickard left this afternoon at 1:05 for Logansport. They attended the funeral of their grandmother, Mrs. Rachel Kern, which was held yesterday. Alfalfa may safely be sown on winter wheat or rye in early spring, the same as is done with clover. Central Ohio farmers are particularly successful with seeding in this way. John F. LaFollette of Portland and Mr. Rupple of Bryant were here yes terday to look after business pertain ing to the Peoples Loan & Trust company with which they are conected. As table fowls, the White Plymouth Rocks are unsurpassed. Their ellow skin and legs and plump bodies of fine-grained, juicy meat of excellent flavor, leave nothing to be desired by the most fastidious. J. W. Meibers has returned from Rome City, where he arranged for the building of the foundation for a new' cottage to take the place of the one destroyed by fire last spring. He expects to let a contract for the new cottage soon. The storm of last night was the most severe ever known in this section for the time of year. Among other damage it put out of commission many telephone lines and caused this office some inconvenience in the way of receiving news. To drive posts quickly take a section of log about fifteen inches in diameter and two feet long to which ire attached two handles at an angle. Two men. one on each side, can use this hand power pile driver while a •third man holds the post to be driven and keeps it in alignment. The display window of the Charlie Voglewcde shoe store is being painted a pure white and when finished will add much grace to the all ready attractive appearance of that up-to-date shoe store. The front of the building will also be painted this spring. Jesse Niblick and other members of the Adams County Hoosier motor club today received neat little brass and nickel number plates to be tacked on their car showing that the holder of the numbers was a member of the club and that the organization protected them against theft. Charles S. Peterson, who is visiting his parents here, and who has spent the past ten or fifteen years in the southwest, has an acquaintance with many of the Mexican public men, including both Villa and Carranza. He has been in their camps and has met them both personally. He has had a great experience and can tell many interesting tales of his travels in the new countribs, the goldmining camps and has been in practically every city and town west of the Mississippi river. He published a book last year, “Who’s Who in New Mexico and Wyoming.” and it contains the story of the lives of the big men of those states, each of wjtom he interviewed personally. BRYANT’S WIND STORM. The wind storm which came up about 12:30 this morning did considerable damage in Bryant and vicinity. The large plate glass front of the Farmers & Merchants’ bank was blown in; two windows of the Guy Shell drug store were crushed in; several barns and ■ buildings west of town were blown down; two houses unroofed and several heads of stock killed. —o REV. KNIPE ON PROGRAM. Rev. J. R. Knipe of Geneva is on the program for the district United Brethren conference to be held in Petroleum Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

CONVERSE IN MORSE CODE Thomas A. Edison and His Assistant, Miller R. Hutchinson, Have a Perfect UnderstandingThomas A. Edison's friends, who know how deaf the inventor really Is, wondered at the success with which he presided when the new naval consulting board met in Washington last fall. As a matter of fact, says the New York Sun, Mr. Edison fooled every member of that distinguished body of men, including President Wilson and Secretary of the Navy Daniels; he heard little that was said, but he presided successfully because his assistant, Mr. Miller R. Hutchison, kept him informed of everything by means of a telegraphing finger tip that touched Mr. Edison's knee under the table. A few years ago Mr. Hutchison fell a victim to the whooping cough and lost his voice temporarily. Mr. Edison sugqpsted to Mr. Hutchison that he learn the Morse code. He did so, and the two men communicated with each other by tapping the dots and dashes with their fingers. And so, when the inventor went to Washington to preside over the destinies of the new board, he took Mr. Hutchison with him, and posted him at his right hand. Mr. Hutchison tapped to Mr. Edison everything that was said, sometimes verbatim and sometimes boiled down into fewer words. He was able to send Morse messages to Mr. Edison at the rate of thirty words a minute, and, as the speeches were delivered in a more or less deliberate fashion, he was able to keep up with almost every sentence of every address. Mr. Edison and his assistant also work the Morse code with their eyelids. With them a quick wink means a dot and, a long wink means a dash, and they talk to each other in this way when they wish to convey a message of a private nature when they are surrounded by other persons and are too far apart tor the finger-tap-ping method. —Youth’s Companion. CITY IS IN DEBT TO FARMER When Bill Has Been Paid Living Will Be Cheaper, Is the Opinion of Experts. The high cost of living and the continued dissatisfaction of workmen with the wages paid by large industrial establishments, two problems that have perplexed manufacturers, educators and public officials in all parts of the country,, can be remedied by a realization on the part of the city people of the obligations they are under to those who spend their lives in the country, “working” the soil for the essentials of life. This is the advice brought to this city by the four-state conference on country life, at its‘first important session here, the Philadelphia Bulletin believes. Those taking part in the conference maintain that the cities have become self-centered and selfish, and have allowed themselves to forget that they are dependent upon the rural communities for food. The result of this attitude, they claim, is that by far the largest amount of public money and the greatest part of the intelligence of the country have been devoted to the development of the thickly populated sections and the country places and farms have been neglected and practically forgotten. Now, through the conference, the farmers are demanding what they consider their rights. What they want immediately are: A thoroughly reorganized rural school system, good roads, improved facilities for marketing their products, better transportation facilities and higher salaried teachers, who are qualified to be community leaders. If' these advantages are granted, the farmers say, rural peopfb will be made healthier and happier, and the cost of food products will be so materially reduced that much of the discontent and dissatisfaction among the working classes will be eliminated.

Up North, of Course. An Indianapolis salesman, while in a crowd of “drummers” who were waiting on a train in a little Texas town on the Fort Wayne & Denver line, tells the following story: “As in most small Texas towns, the station, as far as the waiting room is concerned, consists of an abbreviated platform and that is all. A genuine ’norther' was on that day and all of us had our coats buttoned in a vain endeavor to keep out the chill. While huddled together, we saw a small darky come up on the platform. For clothes he had on a pair of pants and a shirt, but a very dark line between the two suggested that the boy had outgrown his clothes. He braved splinters while dancing a jig to keep warm, and, much to our surprise, after he had quit dancing, he rushed up to us, held out his arms and said, in a most dramatic tone: “Oh, cold wind, where were you last July?” Carbonic Acid for Wounds. Military surgeons it is stated are taking advantage of the pain-stilling and disinfecting properties of carbonic acid in the treatment of wounds by utilizing an effervescent powder which is now being prepared. This is composed of 10 parts sodium bicarbonate, 9 parts tartaric acid, and 19 parts sugar. The ingredients are thoroughly mixed and then crushed to about the fineness of granulated sugar. The substance is applied freely to the surface of a wound, the moisture of which causes it to effervesce and liberate carbonic acid.

CONFIRMATION DAY APPEAL TO REAL BOYS The manly little fellow looks forward to ' : that day as the greatest day of his life, < ■ M*' and wants to look his best at that time. <7 ' < And in buying the suit for him, the occasion is surely of such importance that • f you will do justice to it. / j '-.a, j We have taken great care in buying these suits, to get the best styles, fabrics and workmanship. i Your boy’s confirmation suit is here in ! short and long pants suits. Short Pants Suits $5.00, $7.50, $8.50 and SIO.OO. . Long Pants Suits SIO.OO and $12.50 HOLTHOUSE, SCHULTE & CO. Good Clothes Sellers for Men and Boys.

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